The nature of how organizations capture and store the public's biometric data, such as fingerprints and images of faces, came under renewed scrutiny in Britain by security experts and regulators.
Britain's data privacy watchdog has ordered Cambridge Analytica to hand over all the personal information it holds on a U.S. academic, confirming the right of people abroad to seek data held by a UK firm. Data privacy activists say that it sets a precedent that would enable millions of other U.S. voters to request information that the company had collected on them.